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The testimony of all classes of fishermen shows that nearly all 
species of food fishes have been more than decimated by the 
operations of this company during a very few years. Here isa 
case where legislation is needed on behalf of the economic inter- 
ests of fish consumers, and it is to be hoped that Senator Sewell’s 
bill will receive due attention from Congress, and that the United 
States Fish Commission may become the executors of a strin- 
gent law. The destruction of menhaden alone should also be 
restricted, since that means the extinction of a large number of 
marine animals which live on them, mediately or immediately. 
There is a surprising shortsightedness in all these methods of 
destroying animal life which is not characteristic of the best 
representatives of our race. In general, animal products stored 
in the earth will be found to be more extensive and more inex- 
haustible sources of supply than the bodies of the existing ani- 
mals themselves. It would be better to let animals live and con- 
